Brownfields
2022 Assessment
Grant
Fact Sheet
Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality
EPA Brownfields Program
EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, communities, and other stakeholders to work together to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse brownfields. A brownfield site is real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. The Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002, as amended by the Brownfields Utilization, Investment and Local Development Act of 2018, was passed to help states and communities around the country clean up and revitalize brownfield sites. Under this law, EPA provides financial assistance to eligible applicants through five competitive grant programs: Multipurpose Grants, Assessment Grants, Revolving Loan Fund Grants, Cleanup Grants, and Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Grants. Additionally, funding support is provided to state and tribal response programs through a separate mechanism.
Assessment Grant
$2,000,000
EPA has selected the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality for a Brownfields Community-wide Assessment Grant for States and Tribes. Community-wide grant funds will be used to conduct 50 Phase I and 30 Phase II environmental site assessments. Grant funds also will be used to develop 25 cleanup plans and support community outreach activities. The target areas for this grant are the City of Pineville, the Shreveport Common neighborhood in the City of Shreveport, and the City of Eunice's downtown district. Priority sites include a 618-acre hospital complex and closed gas stations, historic buildings, former dry cleaners, and former industrial sites throughout all three target areas.
Contacts
For further information, including specific grant contacts, additional grant information, brownfields news and events, and publications and links, visit the EPA Brownfields Web site (http://www.epa.gov/brownfields).
EPA Region 6 Brownfields Team
214-665-2268
EPA Region 6 Brownfields Web site
(https://www.epa.gov/brownfields/r6)
Grant Recipient: Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, LA
504-736-7069
The information presented in this fact sheet comes from the grant proposal; EPA cannot attest to the accuracy of this information. The cooperative agreement for the grant has not yet been negotiated. Therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.